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How do you all perform vehicle lift inspections? Do you have a certified vehicle lift inspector come out to inspect your lifts once a year? If so, how much does it cost to have this done. We want to try do this for our lifts this year and I was quoted $150/lift. Trying to figure out if this is reasonable?

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I know that this is becoming an issue around the country, due to accidents and techs not knowing the proper way to set up a car on a lift. We created an in-house base on Rotary's safety's check list. I need to find out the requirements for certified inspections.

 

Here's link to the Automotive Lift Institute for more information:

 

http://www.autolift.org/

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Are you trying to get some insurance company to pick up the risk for a lift failure?

 

I don't see why you need a certified lift inspector is you are not transferring risk. I have paid $150 to have each of the lifts serviced, hydraulic fluid changed, and inspected when it was required from a franchise contract.

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We are trying to start a plan to have the lifts inspected once a year as a preventative maintenance item for our lifts. Because they are used to lift vehicles that could injure our employees, we thought it might be a good idea to have a ALI certified inspector do the inspections versus one of our mechanics or someone who might not be as skilled to see potential issues that could arise from something that is wrong with the lift. I was just trying to verify if $150 is in the ballpark of the right price for this service as we have never had it done before.

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